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enElaine Salinas and Graham Hartley on FIRST PERSON RADIOhttp://kfai.org/news/2018/02/65258
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock on FIRST PERSON RADIO for our last full program (next week will be a look back at the years). Our guests are Elaine Salinas (ojibwe) and Graham Hartley from MIGIZI Communications, the home of FIRST PERSON RADIO.We will look back at our beginnings, where MIGIZI has gone in the last decade, and what the current projects are accomplishing.</div>
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<div>Elaine Salinas is an educator with over thirty-five years of experience in k-12 and adult education in public and alternative school settings. She is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and was born and educated in Minnesota. She holds undergraduate degrees from Moorhead State University and a Master’s Degree in Education Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. She has authored many reports and made conference presentations related to the education of Indian children and other underrepresented groups. She has developed and evaluated k-12 and adult education programs, conducted policy analysis and legislative advocacy in Minnesota for substantive education policy reforms including charter schools, American Indian Language and Culture programs, alternative teacher licensure programs, and educational programming for “at risk” students. Ms. Salinas’ previous employment includes Director of Programs at Heart of the Earth Survival School, Education Program Officer for the Urban Coalition, Director of Community Education for the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and Upper Midwest Regional Steward for the Rural School and Community Trust. Ms. Salinas has been employed as President and Chief Professional Officer for MIGIZI Communications, Inc. since 2004. </div>
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<div>Graham Hartley, MIGIZI’s Director of Programs, left the science classroom at Heart of the Earth Survival School in 1995 and joined the MIGIZI staff. Over the years, Graham has worked with Twin Cities American Indian students as they prepare to graduate from alternative, public, and charter schools. He brings a combination of teaching ability, project administration skills, diplomacy, technology knowledge and a sense of humor to his work in partnership with young people and our partner agencies.</div>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:54:04 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net65258 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2018/02/65258#commentsFIRST PERSON RADIO's Bill Parker Walks Onhttp://kfai.org/news/2018/01/64983
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Bill Parker began volunteering for FPR's organization, MIGIZI Communications in late 1978. He came to the Indian community looking for organizations to volunteer for and someone directed him to us. He plowed right in, doing things like carrying sacks of potatoes for a community feast or quietly standing in the back of the room, ready to help. When he found out we would be training college students from the Journalism school at the University of Minnesota in radio skills, Bill said he could teach voice for radio. Once our studios were built and we had a number of students enrolled in our classes, we began taking students from the general public, and the first student we had was David Larsen, who had a pronounced stutter. Bill said he could help him and teach microphone skills as well. Bill did as promised and for the rest of his life, David remembered his training as he became a sought-after speaker in the Indian community. Another trainee came from the circus world. He wanted to learn how to narrate live events. His first assignment was an American Indian boxing event and he succeeded very well. Bill seemed to understand well the voice abilities of his students and enough of their personalities to emphasize their strengths.</p>
<p>Bill volunteered for FIRST PERSON RADIO for about twelve years, bringing in other talent to help the growing organization. His voice can be heard on the weekly distributed programs. The programs were produced from nationally gathered stories sent by independent producers and then produced and narrated by Bill. A number of engineers worked for FIRST PERSON RADIO over those years, working with Bill as the weekly show was produced overnight. Then copies were made for subscribers and mailed in the morning. The master went to Minnesota Public Radio for uploading to the satellite system and distribution to those stations that could download. The mailed copies were for the majority of stations that had no satellite capacity. </p>
<p>Bill also helped in any other area of MIGIZI that needed work. In later years, he would bring his dog "Louie" to the office to keep him company as he worked at night.</p>
<p>KFAI received and played weekly programs until subscribership could not support the program and it ceased until mid 2009 when it began again as a live one-hour program.</p>
<p>Bill took the time to write <em>Building A Classical Music Library</em> in 1994. His enormous stores of tapes and CDs gave him broad access to the classical world. Bill died on January 15, 2018. He will be missed by all in FIRST PERSON RADIO and many in the Indian community whom he personally helped with gifts and loans.</p>
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</div></div></div>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 01:40:36 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net64983 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2018/01/64983#commentsMark Trahant on FIRST PERSON RADIO 1.17.18http://kfai.org/news/2018/01/64919
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock on FIRST PERSON RADO with her guest Mark Trahant as they cover the fast-moving national and regional news in Indian Country.Paulette Jordan announced she is in the running for governor of Idaho. Many other Indians and Alaska Natives are running for public office, including MN State Representative Peggy Flanagan who is running with Tim Walz in a crowded MN gubernatorial campaign field. </div>
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<p>Mark Trahant is an independent journalist and a faculty member at the <a href="http://arts-sciences.und.edu/news/2015/04/mark-trahant-story.cfm">University of North Dakota as the Charles R. Johnson Endowed Professor of Journalism</a>, a position he will conclude at the end of the academic year.</p>
<p>In addition to teaching, he has been a reporter for PBS’ Frontline series. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-silence/">The Frontline piece, “The Silence</a>,” was about sexual abuse by priests in a Alaska native village. He also has been editor-in-residence at the University of Idaho in the spring of 2011 and again in 2012. He taught courses on social media, the American West and editorial writing. In 2009 and 2010 Trahant was a Kaiser Media Fellow writing about health care reform focused on programs the government already operates, such as the Indian Health Service. He was recently the Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage.</p>
<p>Trahant is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he chaired the daily editorial board, directed a staff of writers, editors and a cartoonist. He has also worked at The Seattle Times, Arizona Republic, The Salt Lake Tribune, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, the Navajo Times, Navajo Nation Today and the Sho-Ban News. Trahant is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and former president of the Native American Journalists Association.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:38:34 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net64919 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2018/01/64919#commentsRon Leith on FIRST PERSON RADIO 1.10.18http://kfai.org/news/2018/01/64822
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, January 10, as she talks with Ron Leith, <span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 20px;">Anishinabe/Ojibwe-Mdewakanton Dakota First Nation.</span> Ron is the spokesman for the Dakota elders in discussions with the Walker Art Center on the development of an advisory council that will become a permanent part of the Walker organizational infrastructure.</div>
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<div>We will discuss the November meeting and the upcoming meeting. The Dakota Elders are taking the opportunity to lead a process of reconstructing a damaged relationship between the Walker Art Center and the Dakota Community.</div>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:23:11 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net64822 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2018/01/64822#commentsEddie Benton on FIRST PERSON RADIO 11/22/17http://kfai.org/news/2017/11/64071
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<div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Eddie Benton Banai is a fullblood Ojibwe and a member of the Midewiwin Lodge. He grew up in what was once an Ojibwe village along the shores of Round Lake just outside of Hayward, Wisconsin. Eddie says, “I was never without the sound of the drum, without the sound of music, since before my birth I began to hear the drum, even as I was in my mother’s womb.” Eddie has lived many lives in this single one. </span><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><br /><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">He was born in a lodge, or wigwam, lived in a village that knew little about material goods but was never hungry. In his youth he was active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and was present during the occupation of Wounded Knee village in 1973. He also has a degree in education and a master's degree in business. Eddie is both an educated, modern man and a traditional Ojibwe man. Besides his many activities, he also writes prose and poetry.</span></font></div>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:50:46 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net64071 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2017/11/64071#commentsShirley Sneve on FIRST PERSON RADIO 11/15/17http://kfai.org/news/2017/11/63957
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, November 15 at 1 pm as she talks with Shirley Sneve and Rebekka Herrera: Executive Director and Assistant Director of Vision Maker Media.The organization and four other independent media makers are funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to represent minority voices in public radio and television.</div>
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<div>Vision Maker Media celebrated 40 years in 2016 by partnering with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and the Library of Congress to stream 40 films in 40 weeks through August 2017. They invested $900,000 in 38 projects in all stages of production. They also presented:</div>
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• Curated and produced two film festivals. </p>
<p>A total of 38 filmmakers participated in workshops or technical assistance. They produced six Viewer Discussion Guides and provided content for PBS Learning Media. </p>
<p>The biennial Vision Maker Film Festival brought 22 films and a dozen filmmakers to Lincoln, Nebraska. The premiere of <em>Medicine Woman, </em>a film by Christine Lesiak and Princella Parker-Red Corn (Omaha), opened the festival. </p>
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<div>Vision Maker Media welcomes its new Assistant Director and we will talk about her work as well as new projects underway.</div>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:06:13 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net63957 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2017/11/63957#commentsLarry Long on FIRST PERSON RADIO 11/8/17http://kfai.org/news/2017/11/63843
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, November 8 at 1 pm as she talks with Larry Long, an American singer-songwriter who has made his life work the celebration of everyday heroes. Author, historian, actor, and broadcaster Studs Terkel called Larry “a true American Troubadour.” Larry has written and performed hundreds of ballads celebrating community and history makers. His work has taken him from rural Alabama to the Lakota communities in South Dakota. He has given musical voice to struggling Midwest farmers, embattled workers, and veterans. He was the troubadour for peace on Soviet/American peace cruises, sang for Mrs. Rosa Parks at the 45th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and organized the Mississippi River Revival, a decade long campaign to cleanup the Mississippi river. He assembled the first hometown tribute to Woody Guthrie in Okemah, Oklahoma, which today has evolved into the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. (from his bio) We will listen to just a few of Larry’s works of music written for the world.</div>
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<p>Larry Long is doing what more singers and songwriters should be doing: using music to help people learn to work together, and bring a world of peace. —PETE SEEGER</p>
<p>Now a Smithsonian Folkways recording artist, Long has sung at major concerts and festivals throughout the United States and world, including Awesome Africa Festival (South Africa), Winnipeg Folk Festival (Canada), at the Hollywood Bowl with Kris Kristofferson, and at Madison Square Garden with Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and many others for Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday Celebration.</p>
<p>Long’s work in schools and communities sparked the creation of an international non-profit organization, Community Celebration of Place, which creates intergenerational and multicultural opportunities for students to learn and grow through a program called Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song.</p>
<p>Larry Long is a recipient of the Bush Artists Fellowship, the Pope John XXIII Award, Leadership In Neighborhood Fellowship (St. Paul Companies), Sustainability Award, and In The Spirit of Crazy Horse Award for his work in forgotten communities. </p>
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<p>America’s richest musical traditions of First Nation, gospel, folk, blues, and R&amp;B. Backed by some of the finest musicians making music across the world today. American Roots Revue is a must-see event whose ever-changing line-up. </p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:32:06 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net63843 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2017/11/63843#commentsMark Trahant on FIRST PERSON RADIO 11/1/17http://kfai.org/news/2017/10/63720
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday November 1, 2017 at 1 pm for the latest in national American Indian politics and news with Shoshone journalist Mark Trahant. When Mark was last on FIRST PERSON RADIO it August we said there was almost too much news streaming over the airwaves but that is even more true for this week. </p>
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<p>Mark Trahant is an independent journalist and a faculty member at the <a href="http://arts-sciences.und.edu/news/2015/04/mark-trahant-story.cfm">University of North Dakota as the Charles R. Johnson Endowed Professor of Journalism</a>.</p>
<p>In addition to teaching, he has been a reporter for PBS’ Frontline series. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-silence/">The Frontline piece, “The Silence</a>,” was about sexual abuse by priests in a Alaska native village. He also has been editor-in-residence at the University of Idaho in the spring of 2011 and again in 2012. He taught courses on social media, the American West and editorial writing. In 2009 and 2010 Trahant was a Kaiser Media Fellow writing about health care reform focused on programs the government already operates, such as the Indian Health Service. He was recently the Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage.</p>
<p>Trahant is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he chaired the daily editorial board, directed a staff of writers, editors and a cartoonist. He has also worked at The Seattle Times, Arizona Republic, The Salt Lake Tribune, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, the Navajo Times, Navajo Nation Today and the Sho-Ban News. Trahant is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and former president of the Native American Journalists Association.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:51:28 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net63720 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2017/10/63720#commentsKelly Drummer on FIRST PERSON RADIO 10/25/17http://kfai.org/news/2017/10/63613
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 1 pm to 2 pm, as she talks with Tiwahe President and CEO Kelly Drummer. Kelly developed the foundation from an earlier iteration as a fund. She brought the assets of the organization forward and made it a community foundation, the first of its kind in the region. The Foundation’s web site describes its origins: "The Foundation evolved from origins as a culturally responsive grantmaking initiative of three Minnesota family foundations known as the American Indian Family Empowerment Program (AIFEP). Launched in 1993 initially by the Marbrook Foundation, AIFEP was the inspiration of Markell Brooks. It operated as a donor-designated fund with monies from a collaborative of the Marbrook, Westcliff and Grotto Foundations. In 2009, AIFEP transformed into a new entity, the Tiwahe Foundation. While Tiwahe Foundation is an independent community foundation with its own board of directors, the original AIFEP remains part of the ongoing work.”</div>
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<p><strong>Kelly Drummer (Oglala Lakota) </strong>is the President and CEO of the Tiwahe Foundation, an American Indian community Foundation with a focus on micro grants to American Indians, leadership initiatives and network building. Kelly’s eighteen years in philanthropy and non-profit work includes; the Minneapolis Jewish Community Foundation, The Family Partnership (then “Family &amp; Children’s Service”), Headwaters Foundation for Justice and New Foundations - a Project for Pride in Living program. Kelly currently serves on the Clearway Foundation and The Family Partnership Board of Directors. She also serves on the Native Youth Alliance of Minnesota advisory committee and is involved with many other projects that benefit American Indian Woman and youth. She holds an M.A. in Philanthropy and Development from St. Mary’s University and her B.A. in cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota. Kelly is a mother of five children and lives in NE Minneapolis with her husband and two young children. She enjoys spending time at her children’s sporting activities, reading, hiking, yoga and working with others to make the world a better place for all.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:10:37 +0000lwmpls@centurylink.net63613 at http://kfai.orghttp://kfai.org/news/2017/10/63613#commentsJewell Arcoren and Justin Kurta on FIRST PERSON RADIO 10.11.17http://kfai.org/news/2017/10/63397
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<div>Join Laura Waterman Wittstock today as she talks with Jewell Arcoren about the importance of learning tribal languages. Two specialists in teaching the very young native languages: Jewell and Justin Kurta of Wicoie Nandagikendan will talk about teaching very young children. This program, nestled in the middle of busy South Minneapolis teaches Dakota and Ojibwe to children as young as 18 months. The 4-year olds in the classes are prepared for kindergarten, where they have shown to be not only ready for school but also equipped with two languages.</div>
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<p>Jewell, (Dakhota and Lakhota is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Whapeton Nation) and has been in non-profits for well over 20 years in the Twin Cities serving in American Indian sector. Jewell has worked as a curator at Two Rivers Gallery. She has done video work specific to the Dakota Oyate of Minnesota and telling their story along with media Artist Mona Smith of Allies media art. She has worked with national music makers and composers such as R. Carlos, Nakai, Joy Harjo, Gabriel Ayala and Georgia Wettlin Larsen to name a few. She has initiated Women’s groups and organized workshops related to traditional and pre-contact Life-Ways. She has produced a radio show called “Winyan Dowanpi” (The Women Are Singing) that ran consecutively for 5 years for international women’s day at KFAI radio station and featured American Indian Women Music Makers from around the nation. Most Recently she has been part of a collaboration that begin with First Nations Composers Initiative, the Minneapolis Park Board and the Saint Anthony Falls Heritage Board to create a venue that celebrates our indigenous communities by showcasing the work of American Indian Music Makers, film producers, artists and performers and now called Owa’mni - Falling Waters Festival. Currently she is a core partner through Wicoie Nandagikendan with Healing Place Collaborative – a multidisciplinary Indigenous artist led project that explores and expresses the connections among people and place as it relates to Healing, Place and Water. She is currently serving as a program director for Wicoie Nandagikendan and is committed to language revitalization. She is also looking more closely at the correlations between language revitalization , historical trauma and community well being. </p>
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